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Barnes, Hilary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation project examines the language contact situation of Chipilo, a Veneto-Spanish bilingual community of immigrant origin in central Mexico, focusing both on the social motivations for the sustained bilingualism observed and the linguistic outcomes in the Spanish of the community. Chipilo is a unique community in that Veneto, a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics
McFerren, Margaret – 1984
A survey of the status of language usage in Mexico begins with an overview of language distribution among the population, mono- and multilingualism, changes in patterns of usage between the 1970 and 1980 censuses, and linguistic issues related to assimilation of the Indian population and the role and philosophy of the Instituto Nacional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indian Languages, Armed Forces, Bilingualism